Angie gets furniture deadline
The Mthatha High Court has given Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga until April next year to supply every Eastern Cape school with all the school furniture it needs. Between now and then, Motshekga must set up a "school furniture task team" for all the province's schools and assess their furniture needs.The latest court order is the fourth related to school furniture since 2012 and was made in terms of an agreement between Motshekga and the Centre for Child Law.In 2014, Judge Glenn Goosen gave Motshekga until May of that year to act on the province's shortage of school furniture.That ground-breaking judgment defined education as an immediate and realisable right, and the supply of school furniture as part of that right.In court papers, the department said about R300-million had been allocated for school furniture production and delivery since the inception of the litigation in 2012...
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